Williams Racing has announced that Lia Block will represent the team in the F1 Academy series next year. The daughter of the late rallying legend Ken Block will drive for ART Grand Prix, the team that will also be running McLaren's Bianca Bustamante in the F1 support series aimed at preparing female.
She might only be 16, but Lia Block is already building up quite the motorsport resume. The eldest of the late rally and Gymkhana icon Ken Block's three children has already been turning heads on the national rallying scene in the States, taking three class wins from four this year, and dominated.
The Barbados Rally Club (BRC) has joined hundreds of motor sports associations, participants and fans across the globe in paying tribute to late rally driver Ken Block. Block died in a snowmobile accident in Utah at the age of 55 yesterday.
American Block, along with co-driver Alex Gelsomino, claimed a terrific victory in Sol Rally Barbados 2020 in a new Ford